Photo: Kate Mount

Photo: Kate Mount

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is a music broadcaster, curator and writer.

She is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio 3, where she hosts the experimental late-night show, Night Tracks, and has presented Breakfast, Music Matters and Hear and Now. She has also fronted the BBC Proms on Radio 3, BBCFOUR and BBC World Service. 

She is Artistic Director of the historic Dartington Music Summer School & Festival, bringing musicians and listeners of all ages, backgrounds and abilities together to play and learn. She also devised and curated the BBC’s Open Ear, a live, in-the-round showcase of contemporary music, which played at Tate Britain and LSO St Luke’s.

Sara has written extensively about music, and published her first book A New Heaven: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Choral Conversations in 2019 (Faber & Faber). She contributes to The Guardian, Huffington Post, BBC Music Magazine and more. She also hosts pre-concert events for a variety of festivals and venues including the Royal Opera House, Barbican and Southbank Centre. Her voice can be heard on gallery audio guides around the world.

Sara was born in London in 1980. She holds a First Class music degree from Cambridge University, and a masters with distinction in musicology from the University of Edinburgh. After graduating, she worked for the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival and Berliner Philharmoniker before joining BBC Radio 3 in 2007.